Boston's business elite has been busy this past week. Catch up on who's going where below:
HourlyNerd brought on Rich Gardner as its new vice president of sales this week, marking the Harvard Business School startup’s third executive hire since its launch in January this year. The company, which connects top tier MBA talent with small businesses for consulting gigs, now employees 19 from an office in Downtown Boston. The addition of Gardner represents the startup’s climb to move up-market from small- and medium-sized businesses to bigger customers, including Omaha Steaks, American Apparel and Microsoft.
“Rich is a true unicorn hire: we are thrilled to add someone with previous strategic experience in strategically deploying a sales force that provides elite freelance labor, on demand,” said HourlyNerd Co-founder Rob Biederman in a statement.
Burlington’s Black Duck Software appointed Bill Ledingham as its new CTO and executive vice president of engineering. The new head technologist most recently served as CTO of data risk management company Verdasys. Earlier this month, Black Duck said goodbye to chief financial officer Ken Goldman when the executive assumed the position at Fiksu, an enterprise app company in Downtown Boston.
Google executive Kaigham Gabriel is now Cambridge-based Draper Laboratory's new chief executive and president. Prior to joining the non-profit research and development lab, Gabriel served as the deputy director of the Advanced Technology and Projects group at Google. He will assume the position this October, when current CEO and president James D. Shields will retire after eight years in the role.
Watertown, Mass.-based Mimecast announced this week that Bekim Protopapa will serve as its general manager of North America. The enterprise cloud services company has seen a 113 percent compound annual growth rate in the U.S. since 2008, with a 118 percent increase in customers in the same period of time.
